Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous suicide epidemic must end  - With the highest suicide rate in more than 50 years, and Indigenous Australians more than two and a half times more likely to take their own life, urgent ...

Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognition  - The proposed referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in the constitution will divide the citizens of this nation into categories on the basis of ...

Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?  - It is not simply that vulnerable children are in custody and mistreated – it is that vulnerable Indigenous children bear the brunt of this punishment.

Ensuring indigenous presence on new Waititi film  - Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi worked with Screen Australia's Indigenous Department to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders ...

The Political Response To The NT Abuse Scandal Lacks Accountability  - Reconciliation Australia co-chair Tom Calma on Wednesday called on Scullion -- who first said the stories of Indigenous boys being abused at the ...

Gillian Triggs Says Something Has Gone 'Terribly Wrong' For Australia's Human Rights  - The laws have the effect of increasing the arrest rate of indigenous Australians and creating a risk of death in custody and of further injury to their ...

 Appalling abuse, neglect of refugees on Nauru  - Many have dire mental health problems and suffer overwhelming ... “ Australia's atrocious treatment of the refugees on Nauru over the past three years ...

New research shows one in four chronically ill Australians is skipping healthcare because of high ...  - Dr Emily Callander, Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics at James Cook University said the situation was significantly worse in Australia than ...

Suicide of 15 year old Aboriginal boy in Don Dale a result of NT punitive culture  - AT DON Dale juvenile detention centre, a 15-year-old orphaned Aboriginal ... Western Australia is the mother of jailers of the nation's Aboriginal and ...

Legal funding will prevent Indigenous kids entering detention system: Aboriginal legal groups  - Long before Four Corners revealed the shocking images from inside the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice ...

Stop brutalising children  - We call upon the government of Australia to immediately halt the use of ... referendum to recognise indigenous people in the Australian constitution.

Why this cartoon is upsetting Australia's Aboriginal community  - One of Australia's most prominent cartoonists has come under fire for drawing an unflattering picture of an Indigenous man. The newspaper's ...

How old is too old for a safe pregnancy?  -  This week, an Australian woman delivered a baby at the age of 63 after having in vitro fertilisation (IVF) abroad. Few women can naturally conceive a ...

Inequality rises as government plans to clip poorest further  - The Australia Institute's Ben Oquist says the actual income of the lowest ... their income to an historic 32 per cent below the Henderson poverty line.".

Abortion confidentiality is important for young people - Davidson  - The Kieft family in Taranaki is on a mission to change the law after their daughter revealed she had an abortion without their knowledge at 15 years ...

Support for all Maori women  - Te Whāriki Takapou Chief Executive, Alison Green says her organisation supports all Māori women, regardless of age, to access an abortion with the ...

Nearly half a million Pokemon players in New Zealand are trying to catch them all  - While Statistics NZ does not collect population information on Pokemon types, we believe this peak may be due to Dunedin's varied terrain attracting a wide range of Pokemon types," she said.

New Zealand surfing thrilled as five 'younger' sports added for Tokyo 2020 Olympics  -  Surfing New Zealand has welcomed the sport's inclusion on the Olympics roster ... Surfers like New Zealand's Ricardo Christie will be part of the 2020 ... the sport in New Zealand was especially popular with young people - over 90 ...

Why our financial advice sector needs to be revived to better represent what New Zealand actually ...  - The point is, we need the spread of financial advisers in New Zealand to ... If you want to attract people to a new sector, there needs to be sufficient ...

Māori artist leads design for NZ Olympic team -  Māori visual artist Shane Hansen of Ngāti Mahanga and Ngāti Hine is leading the design of the uniform for the New Zealand team to the Olympics and ...

Photos of a Girl's First Period Celebration in Papua New Guinea  - The people of Bougainville endured a years-long blockade enforced by the government of Papua New Guinea, which prevented supplies of food and ...

Auckland Council neglects Maori smokers with shoddy smokefree policy, review says  - Maori smokers have been let down by Auckland Council's 'Smokefree by 2025' policy, a damning review has found. The review, by Auckland Council policy analyst Kimberly Rees, found the policy was "not on track" to achieve the desired results for Maori and was not on track to achieve the policy objective for Maori" and had not been executed effectively or efficiently.